Josef Bublik

Josef Bublik (12 February 1920-18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovakian soldier and one of the perpetrators of Operation Anthropoid in 1942.

Biography
Josef Bublik was born in Banov, Czechoslovakia on 12 Feburary 1920, and he studied law before Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Bublik fled to France, and he joined the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile in 1940. In 1941, he was trained as a paratrooper in the United Kingdom, and he parachuted into his homeland in April 1942 in preparation for Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. They hid with the resistance at a church crypt in Prague, and they were attacked by 750 German SS troops during the Cyril and Methodius Church siege in June 1942. Bublik was severely wounded during the battle, and he took cyanide rather than be captured.